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Beautiful static documentation for your API

38Distinct people
41Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
36KGitHub stars
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Beautiful static documentation for your API

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I love middleman. I'm using it (via a modified version of Slate docs [1]) for all of our documentation at Catalyze [2]. 1.) https://github.com/tripit/slate 2.)…

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year41 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-10-16 21:24:53 UTC to 2021-05-25 17:02:21 UTC.

02468102013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 3 submissions, 3 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 1 submissions, 9 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 3 submissions, 6 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021

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20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC633
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1019
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC936
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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Three recommendations. For general static website needs, just use Hugo https://gohugo.io/ For API documentation I recommend Slate. Nice three column layout which allows you to include code/curl examples for multiple languages with tabs in column three. Works great, can be dockerized easily. https://github.com/lord/slate Finally, for general user guide documentation, I like legacy Gitbook. Super simple and trivially produces a nice web based ebook from Markdown files. Don't let the deprecated warning put you off, it works just fine and the code is not going anywhere. https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook Between the three of them you can have a simple nicely formatted static doc site up very quickly.
In Ask HN: How to build a simple (documentation) website for a project on GitHub
rsto·Jul 27, 2017Submission

Ask HN: What's your preferred layout for API documentation?

I'm writing documentation for a public (REST) API and wonder which layout is preferred by developers. For example, Stripe uses a three-column layout: a navigation pane, a column to describe the API, a column with examples and error codes (see [1]). In contrast, Mailgun uses two columns: a navigation pane and a colum including the API description and examples (see [2]). Both layouts seem popular, and I'd like to better understand what's making you prefer one over the other. I'm talking about reference documentation, assuming there's also a separate user guide. Personally, I find the three column layout harder to read: the example pane often wastes a lot of space and squeezes the actual documentation in the middle. On the other hand, I see more and more sites (and tools [3]) using that layout, so that's probably just me? Thanks for your tho
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